New Month!

So it’s been almost a month since my last post and I’m not sure why.  I had thoughts of blogging about our garden (and posting pictures, of course) but in the end I was too bored – it’s a garden and nothing is really doing much yet (except the bugs are eating all the leaves).  June was busy – Spencer has been out of school but the littles were back in.  The homeschooling was horrendous (I’m so glad Andrew’s going back to school for 5th grade – his new teacher can deal with all his weird tricks to get out of work).  Andrew did a week of baseball camp (but I got no pictures and I’m not going to apologize!  I dropped him off and ran each day!!).  Haley has started horseback riding lessons (again, no pictures – but I AM going to take some soon.  She looks cute in her helmet up there on the very tall horse).  Andrew went to his last year of Cub Scout day camp and I did a celebration dance when it finally ended.  No more cubbie day camp.  This was the hardest one of all to like.  They made it a twilight camp (4-8pm).  By 4pm Andrew is at his grouchiest and lowest energy – you can imagine how excited he was to listen to someone “teach” him about conservation.  The camp only lasted three days (camp should run the whole week, as far as I am concerned).  They wanted parent volunteers, but made it extremely inconvenient to be one by demanding various kinds of training in order to go follow the boys from station to station and make sure they didn’t get lost.  Anyway – I’m kind of grouchy about the whole thing, but it’s OVER so I’m going to let it go and hope I don’t get called into cub scouts any time soon.

My biggest concerns:

• getting anxious about Tom being converted from contract to direct hire at his company.  After Spencer’s accident, I’m feeling more vulnerable about the “no medical insurance” situation.
• Andrew’s new diagnosis from the psychiatrist.  While his mood disorder is mild, it is a relentless factor in our family’s life and the doctor seems to think that the right medication will make a huge difference.  I’m having a hard time believing this, especially since we’re on our second med and so far nothing.  I have done a TON of reading but I’m just feeling unsettled – wondering how he will do back at school, worried about what kind of challenges I’ll face trying to get some accommodations at school – wondering what exactly I think will best serve him educationally.  Overall, just a lot of things to process and I’m not done yet, so feeling unsettled.
• trying to decide what we need most – a new car, a new kitchen, new carpeting, a face lift to our front yard …  none of it is essential (except for maybe the car) so I really need to let it go.  But I keep thinking about it nonetheless.
• I need to fix our deck – and get a new patio table.

Well – I’ve posted and maybe now that I’m over that hump I’ll get excited again.  I really need to take some pictures of the kids’ rooms.  They look pretty good now that we’ve done mini-makeovers (we switched Andrew and Haley’s rooms).  Anyhow – this was a completely random post and if you stayed to the end you should get a prize! (but I don’t have any – sorry).  Thanks!